This keeps coming up in conversation so I figured I'd start a thread.

One thing I keep noticing is that people underestimate consumer GPUs until they actually try to run this stuff for more than one afternoon.

Maybe obvious to some of you, but it clicked for me this week.

For context, I'm not chasing leaderboard numbers. I mostly want the system to feel consistent day to day.

Posting this in case it saves someone else a little time.

I'm helping a small team set up a local workflow. We don't need a giant stack, but we do care about continuous batching.

I'm especially interested in mistakes worth avoiding.

I'm trying to sanity-check my setup.

I'm mostly working with Qwen in TensorRT-LLM on A6000. The part I'm trying to understand is speculative decoding.

Would appreciate practical advice rather than theory.

This keeps coming up in conversation so I figured I'd start a thread.

The more I work with local setups, the more it seems like INT4 decides everything downstream.

Wondering if this is just where the whole space is heading now.

Posting this in case it saves someone else a little time.

I'm helping a small team set up a local workflow. We don't need a giant stack, but we do care about small local stacks.

I'm especially interested in mistakes worth avoiding.

This is mostly for local work rather than public serving.

I'm trying to sanity-check my setup.

I'm mostly working with Mistral in Ollama on 5090. The part I'm trying to understand is HBM constraints.

If you've tested something similar, what did you keep and what did you stop bothering with?

I expected the biggest difference to come from the model, but the stack around it mattered at least as much.

Spent some time on this today and wanted to compare notes.

I'm comparing two approaches here: keep it simple on 5090, or squeeze more out of the stack and deal with the complexity.

What would you pick if you had to live with it for a few months?

Has anyone else run into this?

I'm trying to decide whether to keep the current stack or change course. Main question is how people here are handling router policy.

Not looking for the perfect answer, mostly what worked in real use.

If I had to summarize the lesson so far, it would be that clean setup and observability beat clever guesses.

I figured I'd ask here before changing everything.

I'm mostly working with Mistral in MLX on 4090. The part I'm trying to understand is KV cache pressure.

Would appreciate practical advice rather than theory.

Spent some time on this today and wanted to compare notes.

I'm comparing two approaches here: keep it simple on 7900 XTX, or squeeze more out of the stack and deal with the complexity.

What would you pick if you had to live with it for a few months?

This is mostly for local work rather than public serving.